Some royals have ended up in the United States, either by choice or after being exiled from their country. Some have never left.
Here are some female royals who are buried in the United States.1
Ana María Huarte
Ana María Huarte was born on 7 January 1786 as the daughter of Isidro Huarte and Doña Ana Manuela Muñiz y Sánchez de Tagle. On 27 February 1805, she married Agustin de Iturbide and over the next 17 years, she gave birth to ten children, of whom nine lived to adulthood. In 1822, they were crowned Emperor and Empress of Mexico, but their reign was to be short-lived. Her husband abdicated on 19 March 1823, and the family went into exile. They first travelled to Italy, but they were not allowed to stay there and headed for London. In 1824, they were convinced to return by her husband, who was promptly executed while Ana María was pregnant with their tenth child. Ana María and the children were allowed to leave for the United States, and her youngest child was born in New Orleans. They eventually settled in Philadelphia, and she received a pension from Mexico. She died on 21 March 1861 at the age of 75.
She was buried in the cemetery of the Roman Catholic Church of St John the Evangelist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She had been a parishioner there for many years.
Princess María de Jesús de Iturbide
María de Jesús was born on 22 February 1818 as the sixth child and fourth daughter of Ana María Huarte and the future Emperor Agustín I of Mexico. She went by the name Isis or Isous. She was still only five years old when her family went into exile. She became a nun in the United States and died on 10 July 1849 at the age of 31.
She was buried in the same grave as her mother.
Princess Sabina de Iturbide
Sabina was born on 30 December 1810 as the second child and first daughter of Ana María Huarte and the future Emperor Agustín I of Mexico. She went into exile with her mother, and in 1826, she joined the Young Ladies Academy. There is very little information about her. She died on 15 July 1871.
She was buried in the same grave as her mother and sister.
Princess Juana María de Iturbide
Juana was born on 10 March 1812 as the third child and second daughter of Ana María Huarte and the future Emperor Agustín I of Mexico. She went into exile along with her family to the United States. Juana became a novice in the Visitation Monastery at Georgetown in Washington, D.C. She professed herself a nun on her deathbed, taking the name Sister Margarita of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. She died on 2 October 1828 at the age of 16.
She was buried in the cemetery of the Georgetown Visitation Monastery in Washington, D.C..
Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark
Princess Anastasia was born Nonnie May Stewart on 20 January 1878 in Zanesville, Ohio, as the daughter of William Charles Stewart and Mary Holden Stewart. By 1894, she was married to George Ely Worthington, but they were divorced in 1898. She remarried in 1900 to William Leeds, and their only child, William Jr, was born on 19 September 1902. Her husband died in 1908, leaving her a wealthy widow. In 1914, she met Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, and they eventually married on 1 February 1920 in a Greek Orthodox ceremony. She was created a Princess of Greece in her own right, choosing the name Anastasia. She became ill with cancer not long after their wedding. She died on 29 August 1923 at the age of 45.
She was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City.
Sattareh Farman Farmaian
Sattareh was born on 23 December 1921 as the daughter of Prince Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma, a grandson of the Qajar Crown Prince Abbas Mirza, and Massumeh Khanum Tafreshi, the third of his eight wives. She was born in Shiraz, during the dying days of the Qajar dynasty, in present-day Iran. Sattareh received her education from private tutors at home, every day except for Friday. In the autumn of 1933, Sattareh began to attend the American School for Girls in a Presbyterian missionary compound. In 1942, she approached the teachers of the American school she had attended to see if they could help her find a school in the United States. In May 1943, Sattareh was accepted into a small missionary school called Heidelberg College in Ohio. She arrived in Los Angeles, and now she just needed to reach Ohio.
Along with a handful of other passengers who had no one to pick them up, she was taken in by the Red Cross. A friend of her father, Dr Jordan, lived in Pasadena and came to pick her up the following day. He then drove her to the University of Southern California and convinced them to register her. She was housed at the university. In the autumn of 1946, she began to study social work. At university, she met her future husband, Arun Chaudhuri, and after their wedding in 1949, she gave birth to their only child – a daughter. They divorced some time later, and Sattareh and her daughter moved to New York. She spent some time in Iran and opened a school for social work there. Political upheaval finally forced Sattareh to flee Iran in 1979. She returned to her job as a social worker until her retirement in 1992. Sattareh died of lymphoma at the age of 90 on 23 May 2012 at her home in Los Angeles.
Although her burial place is unclear, I assume it is in Los Angeles.
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